Digital Strategist

Salary: Competitive Plus Benefits
Location: Holborn Store Support Centre and Home, London, EC1N 2HT
Contract type: Permanent
Business area: Nectar 360 Ltd
Closing date: 18 March 2025
Requisition ID: 295025

We'd all like amazing work to do, and real work-life balance. That's waiting for you at Sainsbury's. Everything our Nectar team does is powered and fuelled by data - and by great relationships with some of the UK's favourite brands. The Nectar 360 team focuses on developing loyalty programmes, turning amazing data into something that makes a difference, traditional media and digital. It's like an agency-within-a-retailer, and retail media is crucial.

Are you passionate about data-driven marketing, e-commerce, and digital advertising? Do you have a knack for understanding customer behavior and building strong relationships? If so, we have an exciting opportunity for you at Nectar360!

As a Digital Strategist, you'll be at the forefront of our loyalty, data, and marketing services business. Our 1st party data (Nectar) is the key to unlocking customer understanding across various Sainsbury's businesses and supplier base (FMCG and GM brands). You'll be working in one of the fastest-growing and dynamic areas of the business, driving significant profit growth from Nectar360's data-driven digital media offering - both onsite (Sainsbury's & Argos e-Commerce) and offsite (our Digital Trading Platform (DTP monetisation.

Your responsibilities will include:

1. Creating data insight-based proposals for partners and clients.
2. Planning and refreshing audiences to power effective use of 1st party data.
3. Working with analytics colleagues to deliver evaluations and confidently present results.
4. Understanding the key business challenges of our partners and agencies.
5. Championing digital channels to the wider business, publishers, and agencies.
6. Supporting the Senior Digital Data Strategist and client-facing teams to deliver digital budget.
7. Providing bespoke targeting recommendations and driving best practice recommendations for audience selections.

To be successful in this role, you should have experience in a digital media or data planning role in a consultative environment, strong client liaison skills, extensive knowledge of segmentation and profiling techniques for direct marketing and loyalty campaigns, and a good understanding of programmatic and social media platforms. You should also be confident in leading projects and engaging wider business functions, have advanced skills in PowerPoint and Excel, and possess excellent written and verbal communication skills.

At Nectar360, we value proactive problem-solving, curiosity about FMCG and digital media, and the ability to take ownership of key areas and prioritize work to deliver on team and business goals. You'll be highly organized, confident in building stakeholder and colleague relationships, and comfortable with some ambiguity from external market changes and the constant evolution of the digital channel offering to clients.

Join us in delivering Nectar360's digital aspirations and our ambitious growth plans - growing our profits by 60% over the next five years. You'll have access to our Nectar360 training programme, Navigator & the Our Sainsburys Learning Hub, opportunities for internal mentorship and coaching, personal development tools, IAB training courses and seminars, and regular inspirational speakers hosted at our Holborn SSC.

We are committed to being a truly inclusive retailer, so you'll be welcomed whoever you are and wherever you work. Around here, there's always the chance to try something new - whether that's as part of an evolving team or somewhere else across the business - and we take development seriously and promise to support you. We also recognise and celebrate colleagues when they go the extra mile and, where possible, offer flexible working. When you join our team, we'll also offer you an amazing range of benefits. Here are some of them:

1. Colleague discount: 10% off at Sainsbury's, Argos, TU and Habitat after 4 weeks, increasing to 15% off at Sainsbury's every Friday and Saturday and 15% off at Argos every pay day.
2. Pensions scheme and life cover.
3. Performance-related target bonus of up to 10% of salary (which may vary for Nectar360).
4. Annual holiday allowance with the option to buy additional holiday.
5. Season ticket loans, cycle to work scheme, health cash plans, pay advance (where you can access some of your pay before pay day), and access to a great range of discounts from hundreds of other retailers.
6. Up to 26 weeks' pay for maternity or adoption leave and up to 4 weeks' pay for paternity leave.

Please see for a range of our benefits (note, length of service and eligibility criteria may apply).